Fire-pot for stoves, &amp;c.



PATENTED AUG. 9, 1904. D. P. PRINTZ.

FIRE POT FOR STOVES, 8w. APPLICATION FILED DEC 10. 1902 NO MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented August 9, 1904.

DANIEL F. PRINTZ, OE READING, PENNSYLVANIA.

FIRE-POT FOR STOVES, 80c.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 767,122, dated August9, 1904.

Application filed December 10, 1903. Serial No. 184,538. (No model.)

To all whom 732' may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL F. PRIN'IZ, a citizen of the United States,residing at Reading, in the county of Berks and State of Pennsylvania,have invented new and useful Improvements in Fire-Pots for Stoves, &c.,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in stoves, and particularly tothe fire-chamber thereof. The object of the same is to produce afire-brick liner of such construction that the brick will be securelyheld in position and not be displaced by the action of raking oroperating the grate-bars.

To this end my invention consists in the details of construction andarrangement of the several parts, as hereinafter more fully set forth inthe following specification and claim and illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a vertical sectional viewof a portion of a stove, showing my invention. Fig.

2 is a detail view showing one of the fire-bricks,

in perspective.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, the numeral 1 designatesthe brick or liner. The front portion of its upper edge is curved orinclined, and the lower front edge is reduced oncut away across itsentire face, indicated at 3. A support 4 is secured to the oven-wall,near the base thereof, and said support is provided with anupwardly-projecting lip along its front edge, and said lip is adapted toengage the reduced or cut-away portion 3 of said brick 1. Along the rearface 5 of this brick I form one or more longitudinal grooves 6.

The numeral 7 indicates the oven-wall of the stove, and this wall isformed with a number of longitudinal ribs 8, adapted to engage thegrooves 6 in the brick 1.

A clamp or plate 9, having a curved or inclined front end, is secured tothe top of the oven-wall, and said inclined portion engages the inclinedor curved upper edge of the brick or liner in such a manner that whenthe bolt or fastening means for the plate is tightened the inclinedforward end will exert a pressure on the inclined or curved upper edgeof the brick or liner, so as to draw the same close to the oven-wall.

The numeral 10 indicates the approximate location of the grate-bars.

With my improved construction and mounting of the bricks it will be seenthat when these bars are rocked, as during the shaking down of the fire,all jarring, which tends to raise the bricks from their resting-place,thus allowing the ashes to gather underneath them, causing them to leanaway from the oven-wall and forming an air-space between them and thesaid wall, is entirely overcome, as any movement whatever of the brickwould cause the clamp to force the same closely against the oven-wall.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a stove, the combination with an ovenwall provided with longitudinalribs formed on its face, and a rest or support secured near the base ofsaid wall, said support being provided with an upwardly-extending lipalong its front edge, of afire-brick liner provided with longitudinalgrooves in its rear face adapted to receive the ribs on the wall, thelower front edge being reduced or cutaway and the upper front edgethereof being inclined, said brick being adapted to rest upon thesupport in such a manner that the lip thereon will engage the reducedportion, and a clamp secured to the top of the wall engaging theinclined upper edge of the brick and adapted to draw said brick closelyagainst the wall.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two sub scribing witnesses.

DANIEL F. PRINTZ.

Witnesses:

ED. A. KELLY, CAMERON E. STRAUSS.

